Lummis Day Festival at Mariachi Plaza

LUMMIS DAY FESTIVAL EXPANDS WITH
“LUMMIS DAY AT BOYLE HEIGHTS FARMERS MARKET”
FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 4:00PM-8:00PM AT MARIACHI PLAZA
ADMISSION IS FREE

Lummis Day, The Festival of Northeast L.A., will expand in 2015 with new events including “Lummis Day At Boyle Heights Farmers Market,” a partnership with the market organizers. The event is being presented on Friday, June 5 with support from Councilmember Jose Huizar and Council District 14, the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council and other community organizations.

The Boyle Heights program will consist of music and dance performances, plus poetry and art presentations at Mariachi Plaza from 4:00PM-8:00 PM, coinciding with the Boyle Heights Farmers Market held on the same site. (Farmers Market hours are 3:00 PM-9:00 PM). In keeping with the Festival’s multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary tradition, featured artists will represent a range of styles and cultures. Admission to Lummis Day at Boyle Heights Farmers Market–and all Lummis Day Festival events– is free.

Lummis Day will partner with community arts groups to feature some of the community’s most accomplished artists in music, dance, poetry and theater. Creative partners for the event include key Boyle Heights groups including Casa 0101 and the Neighborhood Music School. Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez, Diavolo Institute Youth Performance Company dancers from STAR Prep Academy, Suspect (a band featuring Neighborhood Music School instructors), Chinese-French-American chanteuse Jessica Fichot, Mariachi Tierra de Mexico and Boyle Heights-based actress Miriam Peniche will be among the participating artists.

For the past 10 years, Lummis Day has celebrated the arts, history and ethnic diversity of Northeast Los Angeles. To mark its tenth anniversary, the Festival will present an array of events at five Northeast L.A. locations over the three-day, June 5-7 weekend. A complete schedule of Lummis Day events is posted at http://www.lummisday.org/schedule/

Lummis Day is organized by volunteers representing the rainbow of cultures and diverse traditions of Northeast Los Angeles.

Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles, takes its name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who walked 3,500 miles from Ohio to Los Angeles as a newspaper stunt in 1885. He was the first City Editor of the Los Angeles Times, founded the Southwest Museum ”“ the first museum in Los Angeles ”“ preserved the Old Spanish Missions of Southern California, published a literary magazine, and served as an advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt. Lummis was an early proponent of multi-culturalism, an ardent advocate for the rights of Native Americans, and was knighted by the King of Spain for his efforts to promote Spanish speaking peoples and cultures. The Festival honors and seeks to advance Lummis’ multi-cultural and artistic sensibilities

Lummis Day Festival at Mariachi Plaza

June 5, 2015 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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LUMMIS DAY FESTIVAL EXPANDS WITH
“LUMMIS DAY AT BOYLE HEIGHTS FARMERS MARKET”
FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 4:00PM-8:00PM AT MARIACHI PLAZA
ADMISSION IS FREE

Lummis Day, The Festival of Northeast L.A., will expand in 2015 with new events including “Lummis Day At Boyle Heights Farmers Market,” a partnership with the market organizers. The event is being presented on Friday, June 5 with support from Councilmember Jose Huizar and Council District 14, the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council and other community organizations.

The Boyle Heights program will consist of music and dance performances, plus poetry and art presentations at Mariachi Plaza from 4:00PM-8:00 PM, coinciding with the Boyle Heights Farmers Market held on the same site. (Farmers Market hours are 3:00 PM-9:00 PM). In keeping with the Festival’s multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary tradition, featured artists will represent a range of styles and cultures. Admission to Lummis Day at Boyle Heights Farmers Market–and all Lummis Day Festival events– is free.

Lummis Day will partner with community arts groups to feature some of the community’s most accomplished artists in music, dance, poetry and theater. Creative partners for the event include key Boyle Heights groups including Casa 0101 and the Neighborhood Music School. Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez, Diavolo Institute Youth Performance Company dancers from STAR Prep Academy, Suspect (a band featuring Neighborhood Music School instructors), Chinese-French-American chanteuse Jessica Fichot, Mariachi Tierra de Mexico and Boyle Heights-based actress Miriam Peniche will be among the participating artists.

For the past 10 years, Lummis Day has celebrated the arts, history and ethnic diversity of Northeast Los Angeles. To mark its tenth anniversary, the Festival will present an array of events at five Northeast L.A. locations over the three-day, June 5-7 weekend. A complete schedule of Lummis Day events is posted at http://www.lummisday.org/schedule/

Lummis Day is organized by volunteers representing the rainbow of cultures and diverse traditions of Northeast Los Angeles.

Lummis Day: The Festival of Northeast Los Angeles, takes its name from Charles Fletcher Lummis, who walked 3,500 miles from Ohio to Los Angeles as a newspaper stunt in 1885. He was the first City Editor of the Los Angeles Times, founded the Southwest Museum ”“ the first museum in Los Angeles ”“ preserved the Old Spanish Missions of Southern California, published a literary magazine, and served as an advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt. Lummis was an early proponent of multi-culturalism, an ardent advocate for the rights of Native Americans, and was knighted by the King of Spain for his efforts to promote Spanish speaking peoples and cultures. The Festival honors and seeks to advance Lummis’ multi-cultural and artistic sensibilities